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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Facing Your Giants | January 10, 2025
- Greg laurie: your battle that you're fighting,
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- Your challenges that you're facing,
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- Your temptations that you're experiencing, listen to this:
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- The battle belongs to the lord.
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- ♪ this is the day, the day where life begins ♪
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- ♪ this is the day, the day where life begins ♪♪
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- Greg: you know, we all have giants that we face in life.
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- What do i mean by a giant?
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- I mean what appears to be an insurmountable problem, issue,
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- Or difficulty; something that may be dark and sinister
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- Prowling around the perimeter of your life, or some challenge,
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- Or difficulty that you don't see ever been resolved.
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- There's all kinds of giants we face in life.
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- There's like the giant of fear,
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- Something that's frightening you right now.
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- Is there something like that, something that when you think
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- About it your heart just kind of grip with panic?
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- And maybe it's what's going to come your way,
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- Maybe it's problems you're having at home,
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- But there's something you're deeply afraid of.
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- Or maybe you're just sort of a worrywart.
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- "what if this happens?
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- What if that happens?"
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- It's not even a rational fear, but it's real nonetheless.
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- Or it might be a giant of some kind of a personal sin,
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- A certain area in your life where you are weak,
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- A sin that you fall into over and over and over again.
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- You'll have victory over it for a few weeks, sometimes
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- Even a month, but then it comes back with a vengeance.
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- It might be pride, or envy, or gluttony, or pornography,
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- Or drinking, or drugs, or something like that;
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- But it's a giant that taunts you day in and day out.
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- I want to tell you how you can overcome your giant, how you can
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- Defeat your giant; and to do that i'm going to
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- A very familiar story, the story of david and goliath.
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- Hebrews 11, look at that with me, if you would.
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- Verse 32, "what more can i say?
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- For the time would fail me to tell of gideon and barak and
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- Samson and jephthah, also of david and of samuel
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- And the prophets: who through faith subdued kingdoms,
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- Worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths
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- Of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge
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- Of the sword, out of weakness they were made strong,
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- And they became valiant in battle.
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- They turned to fight the armies of the aliens.
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- Women received their dead raised to life again."
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- David stands out in scripture.
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- Fascinating thing that not a lot of ink is given to david in
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- Hebrews 11, but in other passages there's so much
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- About him, especially in the old testament.
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- But also he's mentioned so many times in the new testament as
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- A point of reference, really remembered as the greatest king
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- In the history of israel, and it's worth noting that
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- Jesus christ himself said he was the son of david
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- On more than one occasion.
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- David, a man of contrasts.
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- He was a warrior, and he was a worshiper.
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- Sometimes people say, "i'm a lover, not a fighter."
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- David was both.
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- He was a fighter.
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- He was a lover.
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- He was a man after god's own heart.
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- He was a sinner.
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- We all know his story well.
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- 1 samuel chapter 17, we're going to start in verse 40
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- And read down to verse 51.
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- And by the way, i'm reading from the new living translation.
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- Verse 40, "he picked up five smooth stones from a stream
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- And put them in his shepherd's bag.
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- Then armed with his shepherd's staff and sling,
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- He started across to fight goliath.
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- Goliath walked out toward david with his shield bearer ahead
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- Of him, sneering in contempt at the ruddy-faced boy.
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- He roared at david,
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- 'am i a dog that you come at me with a stick?'
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- And he cursed david by the names of his gods.
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- Goliath yelled, 'come over here,
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- And i'll give your flesh to the birds and wild animals.'"
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- I love david's response.
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- "david shouted in reply, 'you come to me with a sword
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- And a spear and a javelin, but i come to you in the name
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- Of the lord god almighty, the god of the armies of israel,
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- Whom you have defied.'"
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- Now look at david's faith.
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- "today the lord will conquer you, and i will kill you
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- And cut off your head.
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- Then i'll give the dead bodies of your men to the birds and
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- Wild animals, and the whole world will know there is a god
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- In israel and everyone will know the lord does not need weapons
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- To rescue his people.
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- It's his battle, not ours.
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- The lord will give you to us."
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- Now notice, "as--goliath moved closer to attack,
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- David quickly ran out to meet him."
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- Notice that. he ran out to meet him.
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- Verse 49, "reaching into his shepherd's bag and taking out
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- A stone, he hurled it from his sling and hit the philistine
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- In the forehead.
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- The stone sank in and goliath stumbled, and he fell face
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- Downward on the ground."
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- So now david finishes the job.
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- Verse 50, "so david triumphed over the philistine giant
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- With only a stone and a sling.
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- And since he had no sword he ran over and pulled goliath's sword
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- From its sheath, used it to kill the giant and cut off his head.
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- When the philistines saw their champion was dead,
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- They turned and ran."
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- Wow, what a story and what a victory.
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- The will of the philistines was broken.
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- The will of the israelis or the israelites was reinvigorated.
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- So what do we learn in this story about
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- Facing our giants in life?
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- If you're taking notes, here's point number one.
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- We all have giants.
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- We all have obstacles.
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- We all have problems.
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- We all have challenges.
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- We all have threats.
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- We have things that we face that; well, they're just
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- A lot bigger than us, but i want you to know that whatever
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- You're facing right now you're not the first one
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- Nor will you be the last one to face it.
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- In fact, over in 1 corinthians 10:13 it says, "remember
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- The temptations that come into your life are no different from
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- What others experience, and god is faithful and he'll keep
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- The temptation from becoming so strong
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- That you can't stand up against it.
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- When you are tempted, he'll show you a way out
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- So you will not give in to it."
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- Everybody has giants.
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- So having said that, let me also add this.
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- Though everyone has giants, it is also true
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- That every giant is defeatable.
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- Every giant is defeatable.
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- And by the way, goliath was not always a giant.
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- Remember, when we say giant, we just mean a really big dude.
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- Okay? nine feet six inches.
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- He was kind of a freak of nature.
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- There weren't a lot of people his size,
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- But he was a human being and that means he was probably
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- The biggest baby you've ever seen; right?
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- And, man, when it came time to change goliath's diaper,
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- I don't think anyone wanted--
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- You know, the dad would say, "i'm not--i did it last time.
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- It traumatized me.
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- You do it," you know.
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- And then one day the little--the giant baby
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- Became a giant toddler.
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- Man, i would have hated to have seen goliath
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- In his terrible twos, right?
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- And then the toddler turned into a young man, and then he
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- Became an adolescent, and now he's an adult, a massive man.
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- And i bring that up because giants start small
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- And then they get big.
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- Sometimes there are things that we think we're managing
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- In our life.
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- Let's take alcohol as an example.
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- You know, maybe you like to have a drink; you know,
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- A beer with the boys, a glass of wine with dinner.
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- It's no big issue for you.
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- You said you have the liberty. it's great.
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- But then you found that well, you know, when you get home from
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- Work you need a drink to kind of relax and unwind and then fast
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- Forward a little bit while you--now you kind of need
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- A drink to kind of get up and go in the morning and, well, now
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- You need a drink to get through the day, and one day
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- You wake up and you have a problem with alcohol.
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- In fact, you are a functioning alcoholic, maybe not even
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- Functioning so well, and you're saying, "how did this start?
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- How did this take place?"
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- And it's become a giant.
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- So it's a problem, and i'll tell you what.
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- It's a big problem because i've seen a lot of lives
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- Ruined by alcohol.
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- I mean, you all know i was raised in an alcoholic home.
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- Frankly i've never seen one good thing come from drinking.
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- Okay, not one good thing, but i've seen a lot of bad things.
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- I saw all the marriages of my mom destroyed.
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- I know what it's like to be raised in an alcoholic home.
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- I know what it's like to find my mother passed out on the floor
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- Night after night and have to care for her.
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- I've seen this stuff up close and personal, but not just in
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- My childhood but as an adult.
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- You know, and a pastor i've talked to people
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- Who've had issues with this.
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- It's become a problem.
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- I know of two pastors in particular that lost their
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- Ministry because they ended up with a drinking problem.
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- This is something we have to take seriously
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- And be very careful of, and here's my approach to it.
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- I don't want to be under the control of anyone
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- Or anything but jesus christ.
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- Nothing else.
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- The bible says don't be drunk with wine, where there
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- Can be excess, but be filled with the holy spirit.
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- So we don't need the spirits, we need the spirit in our life.
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- But maybe a little thing like that has become
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- A big thing right now.
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- "oh, i can handle it," you said.
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- "it'll never get the best of me."
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- Well, now it has the best of you and that little problem
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- Just became a giant.
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- Or you might be facing a giant of another kind like a
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- Non-believing husband, wife, or child and you've almost given up
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- Hope because you've prayed and you've shared with them
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- And you've, well, nagged them and you've pressured them
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- And you've done everything you can and they seem to be getting
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- Worse and further from the lord and you wonder are they ever
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- Going to come to christ.
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- So we all have giants, number one.
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- Number two, david knew the battle belong to the lord.
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- Do you know that?
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- Your battle that you're fighting, your challenges that
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- You're facing, your temptations that you're experiencing,
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- Listen to this.
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- The battle belongs to the lord.
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- Greg: do you know certain friends that you like to
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- Hang out with that you get along with very well
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- But they don't get along well with each other?
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- So if you're having a dinner you say, "well, we can invite that
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- Person, but if we invite them we can't find a--invite that other
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- Person because, you know, they always have a conflict."
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- That's how faith and fear are.
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- If faith is present, fear is gone.
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- If fear is present, faith is gone.
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- When one walks in, the other walks out.
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- So every day we have a choice.
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- Are we going to live by faith or are we going to live by fear?
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- The children of israel came to the brink of the promised land.
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- They were poised to enter in, but decided--
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- They decided to send in 12 spies.
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- I don't think any of them were 007, though.
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- And ten came back, the majority, with a very scary report.
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- "the people are huge in the land.
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- Our adversaries are giant.
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- We'll be killed."
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- And then the minority, that was joshua and caleb,
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- Came back and just said, "everything's big there.
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- Check out these grapes that we brought back.
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- But the lord will give us the land."
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- The people chose to believe the majority report.
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- The people chose fear over faith.
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- Look, today you're going to have decisions.
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- You can react in fear or you can react in faith.
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- God is bigger than your problem.
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- And the bible says god has not given us a spirit of fear
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- But of power, love, and a sound mind.
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- Something to think about.
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- Greg: verse 47, david said to goliath,
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- "it's his battle, not ours.
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- So the lord will give you to us."
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- That's why giants defeat us again and again because
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- We face them in our own strength and we lose.
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- You know, in ephesians 6 it talks about the armor of god.
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- So we can prevail in spiritual warfare, talks about a helmet
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- Of salvation, breastplate of righteousness, a shield of
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- Faith, a sword of the spirit, and so forth.
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- But before a word is mentioned about armor, we're told this in
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- Verse 10: "finally, my brothers, be strong in the lord
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- And in the power of his might."
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- In other words, before you do anything else you need
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- To lean on the lord, you need to trust in the lord.
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- Alexander maclaren, a great bible commentator, made this
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- Statement, and i quote: "he who has the holy spirit in his heart
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- And the scripture in his hands has all he needs."
- 00:13:08.798 --> 00:13:12.568
- Do you have your bible with you? grab your bible right now.
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- Grab it. hold it in your hand.
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- "he that has the holy spirit in his heart and the scripture
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- In his hands," he writes, "has all he needs."
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- You have all you need.
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- God will never give you more than you can handle.
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- You'll never be tempted above your capacity
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- Or capicity, whatever that is--above your capicity
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- Or capacity to resist.
- 00:13:36.192 --> 00:13:40.362
- So it's god's strength that we need to lean on,
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- And david cites it in verse 47.
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- "so everyone will know the lord does not need weapons
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- To rescue his people.
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- It's his battle, not ours.
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- The lord will give you to us."
- 00:13:51.507 --> 00:13:54.243
- Listen, we're in a spiritual battle, and if you want to win
- 00:13:54.243 --> 00:13:58.214
- The spiritual battle you got to use spiritual weapons.
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- You got to fight fire with fire.
- 00:14:01.083 --> 00:14:03.319
- You say, "well, what do you mean?"
- 00:14:03.319 --> 00:14:04.653
- Well, look, we have two secret weapons in our arsenal
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- As christians that we rarely use.
- 00:14:07.223 --> 00:14:09.758
- What do you think they are?
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- "boycott and protest." no.
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- "register and vote."
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- There is a place for that for sure, but that's not even it.
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- How about this?
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- Pray and preach.
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- Pray and preach. pray and preach the gospel.
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- So here's the thing.
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- You--maybe you have fear.
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- You're overwhelmed.
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- "i don't know how we're going to deal with this."
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- Pray about it.
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- Turn your worries into prayers.
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- The bible says in philippians don't worry about anything but
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- Pray about everything, and the peace of god that passes
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- All human understanding will guard your heart and mind
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- In christ jesus.
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- So this is how you approach a giant.
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- And by a giant, again, an obstacle, a problem,
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- A challenge, a temptation, an addiction, whatever.
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- Look at it in the light of god.
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- Don't look at god in the light of your giant, look at your
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- Giant in the light of god.
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- Guess what?
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- God's bigger than your giant and god can defeat
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- Your giant because greater is he that is in you
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- Than he that is in this world.
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- In the lord's prayer, which is really a template for all
- 00:15:13.522 --> 00:15:16.592
- Prayer, jesus said, "after this manner therefore pray."
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- In other words, this isn't just a great prayer to pray,
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- Though it is.
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- There's nothing wrong at all with praying,
- 00:15:24.566 --> 00:15:26.702
- "our father who art in heaven, hallowed be your name.
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- Your kingdom come," and so forth.
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- But really it's a model for prayer.
- 00:15:30.873 --> 00:15:32.841
- So jesus says, "when you pray, pray this way.
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- Our father who art in heaven, hallowed be your name.
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- Your kingdom come.
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- Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
- 00:15:40.182 --> 00:15:43.218
- Then he says, "and pray, 'give us this day our daily bread.'"
- 00:15:43.218 --> 00:15:46.855
- Now, if we wrote the lord's prayer, it would be, "our
- 00:15:46.855 --> 00:15:48.958
- Father who art in heaven, give us this day our daily bread.
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- God, how are you doing?
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- Good to see you. here's what i need."
- 00:15:52.828 --> 00:15:54.697
- But jesus says, no, don't pray that way.
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- When you pray, stop and contemplate
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- The awesomeness of god.
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- Stop and worship the lord.
- 00:16:01.770 --> 00:16:03.772
- Get your problems into perspective.
- 00:16:03.772 --> 00:16:06.141
- Big god, small problems.
- 00:16:06.141 --> 00:16:08.444
- Big problems, small god or a small view of god?
- 00:16:08.444 --> 00:16:13.315
- "my father who art in heaven, hallowed or honored
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- Or glorified be your name.
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- Your kingdom come.
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- Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
- 00:16:20.222 --> 00:16:22.624
- My god in heaven, who happens to be my father, who is
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- In control of all things, who is sovereign, now here's my need."
- 00:16:26.328 --> 00:16:30.632
- Well, immediately it'll change my perspective because
- 00:16:30.632 --> 00:16:34.169
- I'm looking at god in his greatness and thus i'm seeing
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- My problem in its smallness.
- 00:16:37.740 --> 00:16:40.909
- So it's prayer and it's preaching
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- To proclaiming the gospel.
- 00:16:42.978 --> 00:16:45.280
- In a way it's sort of attack mode.
- 00:16:45.280 --> 00:16:47.983
- You know, when we preach the gospel, we are attacking.
- 00:16:47.983 --> 00:16:51.453
- You know, we look at our culture and it's so dark and we say,
- 00:16:51.453 --> 00:16:55.157
- "how do we change culture?"
- 00:16:55.157 --> 00:16:56.859
- You change culture one person at a time, and that happens through
- 00:16:56.859 --> 00:17:01.497
- Something called conversion.
- 00:17:01.497 --> 00:17:03.832
- It happened to you, it happened to me, and it can happen for
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- Others where they can become completely different people.
- 00:17:06.835 --> 00:17:09.838
- That's why we're so committed to proclaiming the gospel
- 00:17:09.838 --> 00:17:12.875
- Here at harvest.
- 00:17:12.875 --> 00:17:15.010
- And david attacked his giant.
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- That's point number three.
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- Attack your giants.
- 00:17:18.080 --> 00:17:20.249
- You know, earlier in the story in chapter 17, verse 25,
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- One of the israelites says, "have you seen this man
- 00:17:24.520 --> 00:17:27.623
- Goliath who has come up?"
- 00:17:27.623 --> 00:17:29.925
- In other words, goliath now had crossed the ravine
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- And now was on israel's side.
- 00:17:32.995 --> 00:17:35.631
- So it's not like goliath was just standing in the valley
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- Of elah saying, "come on down here and fight me."
- 00:17:38.233 --> 00:17:40.302
- He was marching right up into the camp of israel and bringing
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- It right in front of them, and that's how it happens.
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- If you tolerate a goliath, he'll take over your territory.
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- He'll get right up on your doorstep.
- 00:17:52.314 --> 00:17:55.651
- He'll get in your grill, as hans likes to say.
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- So here's the deal.
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- Here's how you deal with giants.
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- You don't back off, you don't compromise,
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- You don't make deals, you attack them.
- 00:18:05.561 --> 00:18:08.297
- You attack your giants.
- 00:18:08.297 --> 00:18:10.432
- Look at verse 48.
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- "as goliath moved closer to attack, david ran out quickly
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- To meet him."
- 00:18:15.637 --> 00:18:17.639
- So you say, "okay, this sounds very nice and spiritual,
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- But i don't really know what this means."
- 00:18:21.210 --> 00:18:23.679
- Okay, let's get practical for a moment.
- 00:18:23.679 --> 00:18:25.414
- Let's say you have a problem with drinking,
- 00:18:25.414 --> 00:18:28.750
- Or drugs, or pornography.
- 00:18:28.750 --> 00:18:32.721
- Deal with it.
- 00:18:32.721 --> 00:18:34.356
- So it starts by saying, "i have a problem."
- 00:18:34.356 --> 00:18:36.925
- See, as long as you're hiding it,
- 00:18:36.925 --> 00:18:38.560
- You're never going to deal with it.
- 00:18:38.560 --> 00:18:40.062
- You have to come out and say this to someone you love,
- 00:18:40.062 --> 00:18:41.997
- Your husband, your wife, your mom, your dad, your pastor,
- 00:18:41.997 --> 00:18:45.467
- A trusted friend, "i have a problem with drinking.
- 00:18:45.467 --> 00:18:48.137
- I have a problem with drugs."
- 00:18:48.137 --> 00:18:49.938
- These are not autobiographical statements, by the way.
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- Someone's going to edit this and just put it out in the internet
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- Somewhere just saying that and--with no explanation.
- 00:18:56.311 --> 00:18:59.615
- Okay, so are--you know, "i have this issue."
- 00:18:59.615 --> 00:19:02.851
- Okay, call it what it is. it's not just a problem.
- 00:19:02.851 --> 00:19:05.754
- That's a sin. you're dealing with this sin.
- 00:19:05.754 --> 00:19:08.223
- You're under the power of this sin.
- 00:19:08.223 --> 00:19:10.259
- So you need to bring it into the light of day
- 00:19:10.259 --> 00:19:12.528
- So you can start being dealt with.
- 00:19:12.528 --> 00:19:14.863
- Get it out of the shadows of darkness where it is lurked into
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- The light of day, and that brings into point number four.
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- Finish your giant off.
- 00:19:20.836 --> 00:19:22.971
- So you attack your giant and you finish him off.
- 00:19:22.971 --> 00:19:26.108
- Though goliath fell, he was still alive.
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- Now think about this.
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- David comes out with his sling, kind of like a slingshot.
- 00:19:30.746 --> 00:19:34.550
- Really a sling that he had really learned how to use
- 00:19:34.550 --> 00:19:38.253
- Because he would fight off predators with it.
- 00:19:38.253 --> 00:19:41.056
- He'd put a stone and start swinging it around and get a lot
- 00:19:41.056 --> 00:19:44.426
- Of momentum, and then when he released it it was like a guided
- 00:19:44.426 --> 00:19:47.462
- Missile, in a way like a bullet.
- 00:19:47.462 --> 00:19:50.032
- And it hits goliath, but goliath is a big guy
- 00:19:50.032 --> 00:19:52.334
- And he has a helmet on.
- 00:19:52.334 --> 00:19:54.136
- But he's done, boom.
- 00:19:54.136 --> 00:19:55.804
- And it's interesting he doesn't fall backwards,
- 00:19:55.804 --> 00:19:57.839
- He falls forward and he's lying there.
- 00:19:57.839 --> 00:20:00.275
- Now, think of how many movies or tv shows you've seen
- 00:20:00.275 --> 00:20:03.879
- Where the hero kills the bad guy.
- 00:20:03.879 --> 00:20:07.516
- He kills him.
- 00:20:07.516 --> 00:20:09.017
- The bad guy is dead, then the hero turns his back
- 00:20:09.017 --> 00:20:12.554
- To the bad guy; right?
- 00:20:12.554 --> 00:20:14.156
- And he's like calling someone or doing something and then--
- 00:20:14.156 --> 00:20:17.226
- You know the scene; right?
- 00:20:17.226 --> 00:20:18.760
- And all of a sudden the guy just stands up.
- 00:20:18.760 --> 00:20:21.096
- He's in the frame all of a sudden, you know, with a knife.
- 00:20:21.096 --> 00:20:23.465
- We go, "look behind you, you idiot," you know.
- 00:20:23.465 --> 00:20:25.934
- David had seen all those movies.
- 00:20:25.934 --> 00:20:29.805
- So he's down, but he's not dead.
- 00:20:29.805 --> 00:20:33.508
- So he takes it to the next level, and what does he do?
- 00:20:33.508 --> 00:20:36.578
- He goes over, verse 51, grabs his sword from its sheath
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- And kills the giant and cuts off his head.
- 00:20:42.150 --> 00:20:46.021
- David really knew how to get ahead in life, didn't he?
- 00:20:46.021 --> 00:20:49.124
- No, seriously.
- 00:20:49.124 --> 00:20:50.525
- Okay, now think about this.
- 00:20:50.525 --> 00:20:51.960
- Goliath was big.
- 00:20:51.960 --> 00:20:53.328
- He had a big neck, and he had a big sword.
- 00:20:53.328 --> 00:20:55.664
- So david pulls it up probably with both hands.
- 00:20:55.664 --> 00:20:58.767
- Goes over him and he probably--it didn't just come
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- Off all at once.
- 00:21:01.403 --> 00:21:02.771
- He probably had to chop.
- 00:21:02.771 --> 00:21:05.540
- You saying, "greg, this is so sickening."
- 00:21:05.540 --> 00:21:09.444
- It's in the bible.
- 00:21:09.444 --> 00:21:13.215
- He had to chop his head off.
- 00:21:13.215 --> 00:21:16.785
- Here's your choice.
- 00:21:16.785 --> 00:21:18.954
- Kill your giant or your giant will kill you.
- 00:21:18.954 --> 00:21:22.557
- Marginalize it, justify it so you can handle it.
- 00:21:22.557 --> 00:21:25.894
- That giant's coming back for more, man.
- 00:21:25.894 --> 00:21:28.997
- So cut its head off.
- 00:21:28.997 --> 00:21:30.899
- You kill them or they'll kill you.
- 00:21:30.899 --> 00:21:33.769
- And david used goliath's sword to kill goliath.
- 00:21:33.769 --> 00:21:37.306
- There would be no comebacks for goliath.
- 00:21:37.306 --> 00:21:39.641
- So what does this mean?
- 00:21:39.641 --> 00:21:41.510
- Practically it means you burn your bridges.
- 00:21:41.510 --> 00:21:44.279
- Let's say you have a problem with drinking.
- 00:21:44.279 --> 00:21:46.381
- What do you do?
- 00:21:46.381 --> 00:21:47.849
- Take the booze and pour it down the stinking drain, and don't
- 00:21:47.849 --> 00:21:51.286
- Buy any more, and don't hang around people that are drinking,
- 00:21:51.286 --> 00:21:54.956
- And don't go to places where you're going to be tempted
- 00:21:54.956 --> 00:21:57.426
- Because you know you're vulnerable.
- 00:21:57.426 --> 00:21:58.960
- If you have drugs, get rid of them.
- 00:21:58.960 --> 00:22:00.762
- "i have a lot of drugs. that's bad stewardship.
- 00:22:00.762 --> 00:22:02.898
- I'll sell them."
- 00:22:02.898 --> 00:22:04.266
- No. do not sell them.
- 00:22:04.266 --> 00:22:06.802
- You will be arrested as a drug dealer.
- 00:22:06.802 --> 00:22:10.072
- Get rid of them.
- 00:22:10.072 --> 00:22:11.573
- Throw them out. burn your bridges.
- 00:22:11.573 --> 00:22:14.876
- What about if you have an issue with pornography?
- 00:22:14.876 --> 00:22:16.912
- Well, if you're viewing it online, you need to take
- 00:22:16.912 --> 00:22:18.714
- Practical steps.
- 00:22:18.714 --> 00:22:22.684
- Maybe get an internet filter, but those sometimes don't work
- 00:22:22.684 --> 00:22:25.854
- As well as one would hope.
- 00:22:25.854 --> 00:22:27.756
- Hey, if necessary, get rid of your stinking computer,
- 00:22:27.756 --> 00:22:30.625
- You know, seriously.
- 00:22:30.625 --> 00:22:32.060
- You know, jesus said, "if your right eye offend you pluck it
- 00:22:32.060 --> 00:22:35.163
- Out, for it's better to enter into the kingdom of god
- 00:22:35.163 --> 00:22:37.866
- With one eye than to be thrown into hell with two.
- 00:22:37.866 --> 00:22:41.970
- And if your right arm offends you cut it off, for it's better
- 00:22:41.970 --> 00:22:44.506
- To enter into god's kingdom with one arm than
- 00:22:44.506 --> 00:22:46.742
- To be thrown into hell with two."
- 00:22:46.742 --> 00:22:48.844
- Now, of course, you know that's not literal, right?
- 00:22:48.844 --> 00:22:51.747
- There's a guy with one arm and eye missing going, "don't--"
- 00:22:51.747 --> 00:22:54.149
- No, i'm just kidding.
- 00:22:54.149 --> 00:22:55.784
- But this is a picture he uses to show that we must take
- 00:22:55.784 --> 00:23:01.089
- Radical measures.
- 00:23:01.089 --> 00:23:02.657
- In that culture, the right arm or hand was thought of as
- 00:23:02.657 --> 00:23:05.527
- The best hand and the right eye was thought of as the best eye.
- 00:23:05.527 --> 00:23:08.563
- So here's what it means.
- 00:23:08.563 --> 00:23:10.098
- Do whatever you need to do to get rid of that sin
- 00:23:10.098 --> 00:23:13.368
- In your life.
- 00:23:13.368 --> 00:23:14.936
- And so if it literally meant you're not going to carry
- 00:23:14.936 --> 00:23:16.972
- A smartphone around 'cause you view junk on it, then get
- 00:23:16.972 --> 00:23:20.242
- An old school phone that actually just makes phone calls.
- 00:23:20.242 --> 00:23:23.445
- What an evolutionary thought.
- 00:23:23.445 --> 00:23:24.980
- I mean, there might be practical steps.
- 00:23:24.980 --> 00:23:26.581
- Hey, if you're married, tell your wife what your passwords
- 00:23:26.581 --> 00:23:29.718
- Are so she can access your account.
- 00:23:29.718 --> 00:23:31.753
- Be upfront about it.
- 00:23:31.753 --> 00:23:34.189
- Make yourself accountable to someone.
- 00:23:34.189 --> 00:23:35.824
- If you're single, say, "i have a--i've struggled here.
- 00:23:35.824 --> 00:23:38.627
- You can look at my phone.
- 00:23:38.627 --> 00:23:40.195
- You can look on my computer anytime you want.
- 00:23:40.195 --> 00:23:42.597
- Hold me to account."
- 00:23:42.597 --> 00:23:44.566
- You have to deal with these issues in a practical,
- 00:23:44.566 --> 00:23:47.068
- Upfront way.
- 00:23:47.068 --> 00:23:49.738
- And so david did that exactly, and he cut off the head of
- 00:23:49.738 --> 00:23:53.275
- His giant and this gave courage to the rest of the israeli army
- 00:23:53.275 --> 00:23:59.314
- That then attacked their enemies.
- 00:23:59.314 --> 00:24:02.217
- And, you know, in the same way that they shared in the victory
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- Of david, we share in the victory of jesus.
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- Greg: maybe god has spoken
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- To your heart and you have seen your need for jesus christ.
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- Jesus christ is the son of god who came from heaven
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- To this earth.
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- He was born in a manger, he died on cross,
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- He rose again from the dead; why?
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- Because he loves you and he wants a relationship with you.
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- Listen, i'm not talking about religion.
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- I don't wanna be a religious person,
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- I don't think you wanna be one either,
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- I'm talking about relationship with god.
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- Jesus who died and rose again stands at the door of your life
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- And he knocks and he says, "if you'll hear his voice
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- And open the door, he will come in."
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- Question:
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- Have you asked jesus christ to come and live inside of you?
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- You might say, "well, i think so, i'm not sure."
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- Hey, if someone moved into your house in the middle
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- Of the night, do you think you would be aware of it?
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- I'm sure you would.
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- And in the same way, if christ has come to live inside of you,
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- You will know, and if you don't know,
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- Maybe he has not come in yet, he's just a prayer away.
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- All you need to do is say, "jesus, i want this relationship
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- With you, i want you to forgive me of my sin,
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- I wanna go to heaven when i die."
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- Would you like to do that?
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- Would you like christ to come into your life?
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- If so, why don't you just pray the simple prayer with me.
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- You can pray it out loud or you can pray it in the quietness
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- Of your heart.
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- But this is a prayer where you're asking jesus christ
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- To be your savior and lord, pray this with me now.
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- "lord jesus, i know that i'm a sinner,
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- But i know that you're the savior.
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- Who died on the cross for my sin and rose again from the dead.
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- Now come into my life.
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- I choose to follow you from this moment forward.
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- Thank you for hearing this prayer
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- And answering this prayer.
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- In jesus's name, amen."
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- Did you just pray that prayer with me?
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- If so, i want you to know in the authority of scripture that
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- Christ himself has come to live inside of you.
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- And i would love to send to you, at no charge,
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- "the new believer's bible." it's a very friendly translation of
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- The new testament you'll find very understandable, and it's
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- Filled with hundreds of notes that i wrote that will encourage
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- You in this commitment you've just made to follow jesus.
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- And let me be the first to say to you, "congratulations
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- And welcome to the family of god."
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- Greg: harvest has a special gift for you today: an
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